irretrievable
adjEtymology From ir- + retrievable.
1
Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable
- an irretrievable loss
- But, having hung him, you cannot unhang him. With all your liability to err, you dare to take a step, which, if wrong at all, is infinitely so, because irretrievable.1844, The Western Law Journal, volume 2, page 272:
- Derived terms
- irretrievableness, irretrievably